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The arrival of a prim personage in clean linen and cloth boots rendered the party complete.

The Germans were gross and life there was common; how could the soul come to her own in that prim landscape?

She leaned against her mother and burst into such a loud, ringing fit of laughter that even the prim visitor could not help joining in.

He was so fastidious and prim about his place that a boy would go to a good deal of trouble to throw a dead cat into his back yard, or to dump a sackful of tin cans in his alley.

Like every Anglaise, she is rather pinched and prim in public; but it is very easy to see that when no one is looking elle ne demande qu'a se laisser aller!

You're quite as stiff And prim as if You'd eaten up a poker!"

What with all the diamonds and white satin and tulle and lace and roses and orange blossoms, prim little Jane was almost lost to sight.

"I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China Aster!

It was rather a failure, however, and after a tour of the picture shops she went to give Maud a lesson, feeling that it was very hard to quench her longings, and subside into a prim little music teacher.

She was still wearing her walking-dress, prim and straight in its folds about her tall, graceful figure, and her hair, save for the slight waviness about the forehead, was plainly dressed.

They were joined in a few minutes by a prim, dignified little lady, ridiculously like Mr.

At some hour of the day with which I was not acquainted (for my watch had stopped for want of winding up), I was set down in a clean little street of a prim little town (the name of which I never thought of asking), and was told that the coach never went any further.